Masters of Truth in the Middle-Earth or the Worlds of Fantasy as seen through the Lens of Detienne’s Theory

• Authors: Komorowska Joanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay analyzes the importance of true speech (as described in M. Detienne’s Les Maîtres de Vérité) in epic fantasy. Starting with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, through Lyndon Hardy’s magical worlds, Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea and AnnMcCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, speech carries an added value of truth, preserving and shaping the universe in turn – such understanding of privileged speech links modern fantasy literature to its ancient models (Homer or Hesiod).

Keywords

EN

orality, privileged speech, performative act, memory, epic fantasy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 5. Perswazja (nie)werbalna
• Pages: 157-169

Contributors

author

Komorowska Joanna

• Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych UKSW